Do meetings make 🙄
Where we bake
But there's no cake!
No food we ate
Not even one date
The meetings go on
For no one's sake 🙂
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Office
You Refresh once a year?
Meh I do this everyday!
"How?" do I hear you say?
Have you been to Shinde Vasti my dear?
I frolick and roll,
I chill and I growl,
Unfazed by smell most foul,
Watching humans play football.
Where do these humans come running from?
Every day without fail?
Some building called TRDDC,
Their energy makes me pale!
TRDDC's grandeur unparalleled
With colorful gardens and more
Flowers and grass entice
But no entry for me to rejoice.
They say TRDDC is closing
It won't be the same
Worry not my friend
I'll make sure the story never ends!
June 2023 when TRDDC was closing to move to a new location.
MD
Drums
There were drums accompanying Ganesh visarjan today. The drummers all accompanying each other. One of them in charge of changing the rhythm and others slowly following suit with their respective drums following the pattern set by the lead drummer. This understanding among the dhol players known only among them. The bystander doesn't know the patterns changing or at best notices a change in rhythm after it happens. The tacit understanding belongs only among the dhol players. If we observe carefully this understanding is revealed to us too, little by little, the shared universe among the dhol players becomes clear to us, the bystanders. But we have to focus only on this interaction among the drummers and tune everything else out.
In such moments of focus the grandeur of the Universe in which we live also becomes clear in a flash. The rhythm becomes a part of our consciousness as well, for a few moments we become part of the understanding the dhol players share among themselves, a part of their universe, and a part of the Universe of all of Humanity.
MD
September 2023
control
The illusion of control
We are here on earth a random act of nature
The world itself is built on random forces coming together to form life as we know it.
Makes no sense to believe that we, random particles of nature, can influence any event or person or anything in the world around us.
The sooner we realize this.
The more peaceful we will be.
MD
September 2024
The thing with love
As I listened to favorite songs for the nth time I wrote....
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The thing with love.
Is that it often takes a break
It ebbs and flows
There's melody and there's silence
The silence often making the melody sweeter when we come back to it again
Because come back to it we will
The silence is just a lull in which to savor the magic of the song
As the magic fades the song returns anew like a fresh track
Like an endless routine
Like light and shade and light again.
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November 2024
Spill it!
Spills by people with grey matter nill,
Our lives they do fill,
With the urge to send them the laundry bill.
Or worse, make us James Bond
But with no license to kill.
You see,
Bond makes our hearts with love fill,
He let's us take a chill pill
In a world that otherwise spills,
Mostly tea, but sometimes coffee
With disdain the size of the nearest hill!
-Written by a dill inspired by a dill, in a burst of inspired free will! ✨️
Hands filled with history
Reminders of one's past
Embarking on a journey of discovery
Because knowing past lives
Is key to the present.
Hands that are dusty and proudly so
They carry within them a world of work
Of time and effort
Of love and commitment
Because that's how worlds are built, a brick at a time, one hand reaching another.
May 2023
Meetings etc
Long meetings
Existential question motivators
Day dreaming spaces
From "What am I doing here?"
To "I want to go there right now!"
"There" being anywhere-but-here
"Everywhere" being wherever we have been, together.
February 2025